Guess: non-'faceless' = "Here's Where the Story Ends"? In which case the madness is double, as it's "Can't Be Sure" which is the greatest thing on there.
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 12:16 (fifteen years ago) link
But that was a single well before, so "You Know-oh" that one already...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 12:26 (fifteen years ago) link
"Souvlaki"
― peter james, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 19:13 (fifteen years ago) link
black celebration
― rio (r1o natsume), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link
New album from Nahvalr, a kind of mail-art BM project, opens with a segment from radio host Art Bell talking about underground recordings of the damned. His voice is wonderful, halfway between Tom Waits and Ken Nordine. The music that follows shouldn't be able to live up to it, but does . . just.
― Soukesian, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 23:17 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm gonna go with:
The Wonderful & Frightening World of The Fall (that actually might be 30 seconds tho...nevermind)YTalk Talk Talkthe first Remy Zero albumE.V.O.L.Blackboard Jungle Dub (not the real name I know...)
― goofus vs. gallant (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 13 November 2008 03:43 (fifteen years ago) link
ON THE CORNER
― mr. mayan end times guy (The Reverend), Thursday, 13 November 2008 08:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Innervisions
― goodbye pork pie scarf (The Reverend), Monday, 23 March 2009 23:41 (fifteen years ago) link
sun city girls - torch of the mystics
― oscar, Monday, 23 March 2009 23:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Portishead's Third
Funkadlic's s/t
― bakerstreetsaxsolo, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 00:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Plenty of albums I thought were going to be brilliant within the opening 20 seconds of the first track turned out to be, in fact, less than brilliant.
― M.V., Tuesday, 24 March 2009 01:33 (fifteen years ago) link
no one said daydream nation?
― cutty, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 01:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Usually when I have this reaction, there's an accompanying sugar hangover a few days or weeks later.
― plenty chong (libcrypt), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 01:57 (fifteen years ago) link
― M.V., Monday, March 23, 2009 9:33 PM (27 minutes ago)
pretty sure there's a thread 4 this
― abe being busy (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 02:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Albums that you THOUGHT were going to be brilliant within the opening 20 seconds of the first track, but actually....
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 02:10 (fifteen years ago) link
OK maybe longer than 20 sec but: Paul's Boutique― sexyDancer, Monday, November 10, 2008 2:03 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― sexyDancer, Monday, November 10, 2008 2:03 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this is insane.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 02:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Kid AWhite Light/White Heat
― Creeztophair, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 02:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Can - Tago Mago
― peter in montreal, Thursday, 11 November 2010 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRur9D354W0
― no place running the schools (Eazy), Thursday, 11 November 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
If you don't count the prelude track that's before it, and the the intro on the track itself, the first 20 of Andre's verse on this is just like, oh shit...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruA4efaRpKg
― EDB, Thursday, 16 December 2010 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link
"I don't wanna kiss you, I don't wanna touch..."
― ellaguru, Thursday, 16 December 2010 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Rory Gallagher- Irish Tour
he's tuning up and you know this is going to be a fucking killer show.
― Randy Moss' dog's personal chef (Bill Magill), Thursday, 16 December 2010 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
cluster - zuckerzeit
― straight old fashioned, virgin (another al3x), Thursday, 16 December 2010 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
The Congos- Heart of the Congos, for the exact same reason as Loveless, weirdly enough.
― oiocha, Thursday, 29 January 2015 00:33 (nine years ago) link
fuckin' FUN HOUSE!!!!
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 29 January 2015 01:04 (nine years ago) link
Patti Smith - Horses
― Lee626, Thursday, 29 January 2015 02:02 (nine years ago) link
Stone Roses
― ghetto phablet (rip van wanko), Thursday, 29 January 2015 02:13 (nine years ago) link
Live Evil
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Thursday, 29 January 2015 02:23 (nine years ago) link
Fun House cosign
also Hounds of Love
― mom, Thursday, 29 January 2015 02:24 (nine years ago) link
hi mom!
― i ain't marchant anymore (unregistered), Thursday, 29 January 2015 02:33 (nine years ago) link
This Year's Model
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 29 January 2015 04:39 (nine years ago) link
I've heard less than a minute of Current 93's Sleep Has His House and I know this is going to be the best album of all time
― imago, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
Maybe Raw Power?
― brush ’em like crazy (morrisp), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 19:49 (five years ago) link
pirates
i just knew
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
Unknown Pleasures anyone? The slightly sluggish drums, the characteristic bass lead line with the oomph and the guitar motiv are all present in the first 20 seconds. Plus some synthesizer effects. It's all there, one of the greatest albums of all-time has just begun and you know it immediately.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
Richard D. James LP probably another one.
― brush ’em like crazy (morrisp), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link
Owen Pallett's 'Heartland' comes to mind: you hear those strings rising and you're just knocked for six.
LJ you're in for a treat, Sleep Has His House is a stone cold classic.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
I just checked this out, and uhhh.... what are you hearing, exactly(?)
― brush ’em like crazy (morrisp), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
Mournful perfect bassline interjected by frolic-sad-soft folk guitar shimmer. It's a mood idk
Title track BTW - now THAT is how you construct a long ambient piece that I can get with. Just needs magick
― imago, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
Yeezus
― dinnerboat, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
The Young Gods - L'eau RougeSwans - Holy Money
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
xxp I guess the bassline isn't coming thru via my computer speakers; the first minute sounds mostly silent!
― brush ’em like crazy (morrisp), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
Where’s the thread for albums that give you anticipatory goosebumps in the first two minutes and then turn into a total slog HELLO LATE NINETIES TECHNO
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 21:44 (five years ago) link
How about albums whose opening track initially sounded limp/underwhelming -- especially given the hype around the album -- but you quickly came around after a few spins:
SLANTED & ENCHANTED
IS THIS IT
― brush ’em like crazy (morrisp), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
Where’s the thread for albums that give you anticipatory goosebumps in the first two minutes and then turn into a total slog
HELLO LATE NINETIES TECHNO
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 21:44 (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Plaid - Double Figure being a lovely example
― imago, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
d'angelo - black messiah
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 22:12 (five years ago) link
Miles Davis - Nefertiti (probably other Miles albums too)
― Paul, Thursday, 11 October 2018 00:50 (five years ago) link
Electro-Pura by Yo La Tengo was the quintessential example of this fer me.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 11 October 2018 01:04 (five years ago) link
Phil niblock - touch food
― brimstead, Thursday, 11 October 2018 03:39 (five years ago) link
phill